"Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother." - Melanie Klein

"The capacity to become depressed, to mourn loss, is something that is not inborn nor is it an illness, it comes as an achievement of healthy emotional growth." — D. W. Winnicott

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." — Sigmund Freud

"Psychotherapy takes place in the overlap of two areas of playing, that of the patient and that of the therapist. Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together." — D. W. Winnicott

"The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery." — Erik H. Erikson

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees." — Anna Freud

"One does not become fully human painlessly." — Rollo May

"…and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self." — D. W. Winnicott

"If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned." — Wilfred Bion

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